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Please excuse my terseness. I'm trained in computer science, not philosophy. Regarding the query above, do you have any classifiers to offer (for example, "value ethics"), so that I may explore the literature with greater intent? A more meaningful conversation is intended.

I'm not sure there is such an animal as "value ethics", or even whether those two words can be held together by a flimsy set of quotation marks.
How many kinds of value do you suppose humans have? How many of those are ruled or influenced by an ethic?
Before you can classify, you must clarify.

wiki wrote:Axiology (from Greek ἀξία, axia, "value, worth"; and -λογία, -logia) is the philosophical study of value. It is either the collective term for ethics and aesthetics[1], philosophical fields that depend crucially on notions of worth, or the foundation for these fields, and thus similar to value theory and meta-ethics. The term was first used by Paul Lapie, in 1902,[2][3] and Eduard von Hartmann, in 1908.[4][5]

Axiology studies mainly two kinds of values: ethics and aesthetics. Ethics investigates the concepts of "right" and "good" in individual and social conduct. Aesthetics studies the concepts of "beauty" and "harmony." Formal axiology, the attempt to lay out principles regarding value with mathematical rigor, is exemplified by Robert S. Hartman's science of value.

I am for and into the quantification of morality and ethics.
If we do not put attempts into putting values for morality and ethics, we will be beating around the bush all the time without any improvements.

In quantifying morality and ethics we need to use the system approach so that all inter-connected variables are accounted for to support any moral or ethical decisions.

Not-a-theist. Religion is a critical necessity for humanity now, but not the FUTURE.

If the question is one of axiology, the thread starter must categorically exclude material and monetary values, emotional and sentimental value, hierarchical status and strategic value before posing a specific question regarding either virtue or aesthetics.